[PATCH v4 08/41] docs: kdoc_parser: fix the default_value logic for variables
From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Date: 2026-01-31 14:25:22
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Jonathan Corbet, Mauro Carvalho Chehab, Linus Torvalds
The indentation is wrong for the second regex, which causes problems on variables with defaults. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <redacted> Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <redacted> Reviewed-by: Aleksandr Loktionov <redacted> --- tools/lib/python/kdoc/kdoc_parser.py | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tools/lib/python/kdoc/kdoc_parser.py b/tools/lib/python/kdoc/kdoc_parser.py
index 201c4f7298d7..cbfdaba39494 100644
--- a/tools/lib/python/kdoc/kdoc_parser.py
+++ b/tools/lib/python/kdoc/kdoc_parser.py@@ -1035,9 +1035,9 @@ class KernelDoc: default_val = r.group(2) else: r= KernRe(OPTIONAL_VAR_ATTR + r"(?:[\w_]*)?\s+(?:\*+)?(?:[\w_]+)\s*[\d\]\[]*\s*(=.*)?") - if r.match(proto): - default_val = r.group(1) + if r.match(proto): + default_val = r.group(1) if not declaration_name: self.emit_msg(ln,f"{proto}: can't parse variable") return
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